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Joe Naiman Village News Reporter The first in-person Fallbrook Revitalization Committee meeting in nearly two years was held Oct. 27 in the Fallbrook Public Utility District board room. "We had another fantastic revitalization committee meeting with over 65 people showing up," said Supervisor Jim Desmond. "I want to thank the residents of Fallbrook for stepping up and owning the issues." In February 1996, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors established a community...
Rick Monroe Special to the Village News Three seniors from Fallbrook High School and one from Oasis High School were recognized at the monthly breakfast on Nov. 3, sponsored by Fallbrook Student of the Month committee to honor outstanding students in the Fallbrook Union High School District. Lynne Grantham, president of the committee, made the presentations and each student went on the stage individually with their family and the teacher who made the nomination. The FHS...
Rick Monroe Special to the Village News The effort to recall Diane Summers, president of the Board of Trustees of the Fallbrook Union High School District, was extremely short of the 5,652 required to put it on the ballot. The County Registrar of Voters confirmed last week that only 801 qualified signatures were received by the Sept. 23 deadline. The recall drive began on May 26 by a group of Fallbrook parents who called their group Reclaim Fallbrook Schools. Reasons cited by the group for the campaign to replace Summers...
FALLBROOK – Wings of Change is pleased to discuss a local favorite anise swallowtail, papilio zelicaon Lucas, for its November Butterfly of the Month. The anise swallowtail is a giant yellow and black butterfly that can be commonly seen throughout most of the Western United States and into Mexico. Their habitats include hills, mountains, gardens, fields, vacant lots, and roadsides. They take one migrational flight from April to July. The adult butterfly ranges from 2 &...
Kevin Hecteman Special to the Village News A largely drama-free avocado-growing season has all but ended, with the crop close to meeting midseason projections. As of last week, the 2020-2021 season – which started Nov. 1, 2020 – had seen 263.5 million pounds of fruit come off the trees, according to figures from the California Avocado Commission. That's just below the 265 million pounds forecast in the commission's April survey of growers and handlers. By contrast, the 2019-20...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter The fire chief of the North County Fire Protection District has the authority to issue an emergency repair and, two days after the Sept. 21 NCFPD board meeting, a propane leak at NCFPD Station 2 on Winterwarm Drive merited action prior to the next scheduled board meeting Oct. 26. NCFPD Fire Chief Keith McReynolds notified NCFPD Board President John van Doorn before McReynolds authorized the repair Sept. 23. The board had no objections to the $6,500 repair and ratified the emergency repair...
Dr. Gary Weitzman, DVM San Diego Humane Society November is National Adopt a Senior Pet Month, and what better way to celebrate than by opening your home to a senior animal in need? All month long, in a promotion sponsored by our friends at Purina, San Diego Humane Society is reducing adoption fees for senior pets (7 years of age and older) by 50% to help these special animals find the loving homes they deserve. Across our campuses, we currently have dozens of senior dogs and cats available for adoption. Senior pets often...
Shelby Ramsey Special to the Village News While no chronic illness is easy to navigate, individuals afflicted with diabetes are recognized as having a notably stressful and high-maintenance disease. Dr. Rashmi Mullur, an endocrinologist and integrative medicine expert with UCLA Health and the Greater Los Angeles Veterans Administration, is very focused on diabetes and its relationship to stress. The stress from living with diabetes "has to do with the overall emotional [and]...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter The Fallbrook Regional Health District's Community Health and Wellness Center received approval from the county's Planning Commission. The Planning Commission voted 7-0 Oct. 29 to approve a Major Use Permit modification and to find the change in use from church to wellness center activity exempt from further California Environmental Quality Act review. The 4.8-acre parcel in the 1600 block of East Mission Road has RR Rural Residential zoning and a VR-2 Village Residential land use...
Megan Johnson McCullough Special to the Village News Whiplash is caused by a forward or backwards jerking of the head. The most common cause is from being in a car accident. Symptoms don't always immediately present themselves, but tend to surface at least within 24 hours of the trauma. Soft tissue becomes damaged from the jerking motion to areas such as discs and other muscles and ligaments. The injury may not be detectable on a standard X-ray, but a doctor can perform CT...
KING OF PRUSSIA, Penn. – Universal Health Services Inc. announced Nov. 1 that it has entered into a binding agreement for a strategic alignment with Riverside Medical Clinic located in Riverside County. Serving the community for over 85 years, Riverside Medical Clinic is a premier multi-specialty physician practice that employs more than 180 physicians and advanced practice providers in seven physician offices located in Murrieta, Eastvale, Jurupa, Temescal Valley and Riverside. In addition, the clinic operates a m...
I just read a news article about AB3121 that I bet few people have read. California Assembly Bill 3121 establishes the Task Force to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans, with a Special Consideration for African Americans Who are Descendants of Persons Enslaved in the United States (Task Force or Reparations Task Force). The purpose of the Task Force is: (1) to study and develop reparation proposals for African Americans; (2) to recommend appropriate ways to educate the California public of the task...
Supervisor Jim Desmond 5th District Last week, SANDAG’s Board of Directors received a report on their $160 billion transportation plan. One of the big questions when it comes to their ‘ambitious’ plan is, how are they going to pay for it? Well, we are starting to get a clearer picture. One aspect is to track and tax all San Diegans. San Diegans would be charged a set price for every mile traveled within the State of California. The money collected from vehicle drivers would then be used to pay for public trans...
While I am not surprised, I continue to be disappointed in the reporting done by the Fallbrook Village News. Rick Monroe’s article on the Fallbrook High School Board of Trustees’ meeting of Oct. 25 was so blatantly one-sided that it isn’t reporting at all, but more like pandering. He didn’t mention one word about the members of the public in attendance that commented on the board’s responsibility to follow the State mandate and help keep our residents safe and healthy. He didn’t say one word about the racist, hateful and...
Assemblymember Marie Waldron AD-75 The San Pedro Port Complex handles 40% of containerized cargo that enters the United States. The complex is also the primary gateway for all U.S. trade to Asia. Disruptions in the global supply chain are driven by multiple factors. These include impacts of COVID-19 on the workforce and terminal operations, increased online shopping and more overseas purchases, lack of trucks and rail cars, lack of warehouse space to store containers and a failure to implement modern port...
For the first time in 20 years, we celebrate Veterans Day in relative peace. On Nov. 11, 1918, Ralph Lindsey wrote from his hospital bed in France “Armistice signed at 11 o’clock. Grand celebration all over France. War is at last over and I am still alive!” Later in life if you asked him about the scars on his chest he would simply respond with a shrug and say, “I zigged when I should have zagged.” Ralph was my great-grandfather, and now, nearly 103 years after he wrote those words, our nation once again finds ourselves...
Hoover Institution’s Victor Davis Hanson is certainly a good choice to tell us about lying, since he has first hand experience, which he presents here. He starts with saying Dr. Fauci lied when he said masks were of little use. According to Reuters: “A video circulating on social media shows Dr Anthony Fauci, … saying ‘there’s no reason to be walking around with a mask.’ Fauci’s remarks were made on March 8, 2020 and do not represent his current stance on face coverings nor the updated guidance issued by the Centers for Disea...
Julie Reeder Publisher Merrium Webster defines Fascism as “a political philosophy, movement, or regime that exalts nation and often race above the individual and stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition,” or (2) “a tendency toward or actual exercise of strong autocratic or dictatorial control.” What do you have when your president mandates things that are unconstitutional and illegal and has a host of unel...
Was the election in the Commonwealth a bellwether for the 2022 midterms? It appears that the deep blue state of Virginia has come to its political senses. McAuliffe could not be saved from his humiliating defeat even with the parade of leftist luminaries coming to his aid, including the two-term "King of Narcissism" himself. Not only did Virginia elect a Republican governor, but they also elected a Republican Lieutenant Governor and Attorney General. And to think that these two new inductees to the state's leadership posts,...
Rick Monroe Special to the Village News Randy Vance has evidence of the effectiveness of services provided by Atlas Wildfire Defense Co. The Fallbrook company, a partnership of Vance and his best friend, Kier Ceballos, reports that the six homes and two businesses they sprayed in the Lake Tahoe area all survived the disastrous wildfire that was officially contained on Oct. 21. “We’re pleased that none of the eight structures were damaged, when all around them buildings burned,” Vance said. “We were a perfect eight-f...
Kim Harris Managing Editor Missing Fallbrook woman Elena Roy's husband spoke to Village News in an exclusive interview Saturday, Nov. 6, pleading for the return of his wife who, as of press time, hadn't been seen since Wednesday, Nov. 3. "The only thing that matters to me is that she shows up, period," Chris Cataldo said, adding that he had been dealing with false reports of her disappearance from "all over town." Roy, who disappeared between 1:30 and 1:45 p.m., is white, 5...
Kim Harris Managing Editor A 34-year-old man working a zipline receiving platform in north San Diego County was fatally injured Saturday, Oct. 30, while trying to save a woman who was attempting to hook up on the platform, authorities said. Joaquin Romero of Banning died of multiple blunt force trauma injuries Monday, Nov. 1, after he fell from a receiving platform of a zipline while trying to help the rider, according to the San Diego County Medical Examiner. Romero, who...
On a brick wall downtown hangs a modest engraving dedicated "to all Korean War Veterans." This is the Fallbrook Veterans Honor Roll, where a mosaic of plaques pay tribute to the men and women who survived America's wars, and beneath the Korean War dedication is a reminder of that conflict's regrettable title: "The Forgotten War." Several branches of a bougainvillea vine have grown over this side of the memorial. "Forgotten" is a word to haunt those who have suffered and...
Joe Naiman Village News Reporter The North County Fire Protection District has adjusted the fees charged for NCFPD ambulance calls. A 4-0 vote at the Oct. 26 NCFPD board meeting, with David Kennedy absent, approved the new ambulance fee schedule. "That will bring our ambulance fees up to a regional average," said NCFPD Fire Chief Keith McReynolds. In September 2016, the NCFPD board adopted a policy which provides an automatic annual rate increase for ambulance service based on the annual Consumer Price Index for San Diego...
Rick Monroe Special to the Village News A motion to return to virtual board meetings was unanimously rejected by trustees of the Fallbrook Union High School District at their regular board session Monday evening, Nov. 8. The meeting followed the recent pattern of an increasing number of vocal parents coming to urge the board to align with their position of not forcing students to vaccinate for COVID-19. Again, the board took no position. The large contingent of activists may have felt some victory with the board’s decision n...
